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John C. Baker

@johnbaker10.bsky.social
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South San Francisco (formerly Glendale and Arcata). Worked as: Reporter, 911 dispatcher, school board. Interests: Transit, baseball, comics. Used to be @jcb10 on the bird site.

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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pro-tip: If the drive-in vaccination line is shorter than the walk-in line, Kaiser will let you go through it on a bicycle.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just gotta say, "Peter Hook" is a great name for a bassist.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seems to be an encampment fire behind fire behind the Westborough Pacific Super in South San Francisco. Police scanner says they heard explosions.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I liked Krakoa, I had fun with the Morrison and Whedon runs, but Gail’s Uncanny is the first time I’ve LOVED the X-men since around Claremont’s issue 210.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A great step forward for local workforce housing which can be emulated elsewhere: San Mateo County Office of Education buys existing apartment building, and as residents naturally move, educators will be replacing them at reduced rents. www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/a...
smdailyjournal.com
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn, the Temu app sucks. I just want to buy a cheap [item redacted to avoid ads]. They make you play non-skippable stupid games (“spin a wheel to get a free prize,” etc.) just to get on the app. I don’t have time for this. Off to eBay or Amazon.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
John Mulaney showing off his book from my hometown Glendale Library at the #Emmys!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today, in separate concerts, I saw two very different bands that have each been touring the world for nearly 50 years: Kool and the Gang (at SSF’s concert in the park) and Public Image Limited (at the Fillmore). Even money that I may be the first to see them both on the same day.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Guys, I finally did it! I threw away the single glove that’s been sitting in my garage for three years in the forlorn hope that I find its partner. EDIT: Three days later — I found the other glove.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ah shucks, according to Thor issue 284 (picking up a thread from Jack Kirby’s Eternals run), the Celestials are going to judge us this year. Don’t think we’re gonna make it, folks.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey, @nytimes.com: I'm a subscriber with a desktop, laptop, tablet, work computer, and smart phone. Multiple devices are typical today, so stop accusing me of sharing my account and making me go through 2FA each time I read a story. I'm not buying your damn family plan.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I think there's a bunch of people in the Trump administration who've never seen Come From Away.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ugh. For the first time in many years, I forgot to tag off of #Caltrain tonight and was charged for a trip to Gilroy.
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Leadoff home run on first pitch and walk-off home run in same game: 8/17/26 Pete Crow-Armstrong 5/7/57 Vic Power
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
RIP Frank Beard of ZZ Top, who ironically was the only member without a beard.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Charles Hoelter is running for Congress against @kevinmullin.house.gov. Nothing says "fighting for the common man" like posting a variable width picture of yourself in a tuxedo and nothing says "attention to detail" like not capitalizing your own name.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I love Star Trek, including new shows (especially SNW), and loved the convenience of streaming any episode, anytime on Paramount+. But, with my annual subscription ending about the time this season of Strange New Worlds does, I am cancelling because of the evisceration of editorial independence.
Paramount+ cancellation notice, citing Cancelation of Star Trek Academy, Stephan Colbert, and evisceration of 60 Minutes as the reason.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s 8-0 in the 9th, but I have faith the #SFGiants can come back because the Tigers have Kenley Jansen in their bullpen.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is how Amazon delivers in downtown Hamburg. I like it (the vehicle, not Amazon or Bezo's politics)!
A small go-cart like vehicle with tall sides, but barely wide enough for a single person.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#MLB trade deadline hot take: intra-division trades should be outlawed, with a 60-game waiting period for trades involving a third team out of the division. Looking at you Giants /Padres and Red Sox/Orioles.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have never forgotten this "well, duh" headline that the Chronicle put on a murder story back in the day.
Headline on new story screenshot reads "Murder suspect disapproved of his victims"
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Back home, and greeted with this view!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The screen on my United flight says we’re about to leave Medford, Oregon. We’re in Germany. I’m assuming/hoping it’s not connected to the navigation computer.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
St. Nikolai’s Church in Hamburg. Destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII and maintained as a memorial. Warmongers usually reap what they sow.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Germany bucket list item achieved: woman next to me on Hamburg bus just exclaimed “scheiss!” into her phone.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hamburg! As a former working journalist, I like that this building is just outside our hotel window. Hoping to see some early Beatles history while I’m here — and to have a hamburger.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Speaking of property taxes, I feel compelled to show you this Silicon Valley house that has a market value of $4,313,755, and an annual property tax bill of $2,551 - an effective rate of 0.06%
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump’s threats to Greenland have pissed off the Danes enough that it’s breaking through the kitty love.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Always happy to see libraries with large graphic novel sections, like the one I am in now in Lund, Sweden.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
F*** me? Well f*** you too!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My first Danish comic book store visit (and mini-haul).
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New #CityHallSelfie. Copenhagen’s radhaus!
John in front of Copenhagen’s old brick City Hall
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Argentinian fans rally in Copenhagen before tonight‘s #WorldCup final.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I love the name of this Danish town.
Exit sign to Middlefart.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Very impressed with Aalborg’s bike infrastructure and TRIPLE articulated (bendy) buses!
Triple bendy busSeparated bike lane. Taken from a lime bike
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Off to Denmark by sea… see you Saturday, Aalborg!
John wearing an Oakland Ballers cap on a ship with a fjord in the back
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wow, they sure are taking the World Cup loss hard.
Breaking news screenshot: French MPs vote to approve right to assisted dying for adults with "serious and incurable" illnesses
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Another #CityHallSelfie: Akureyri in the north of Iceland!
John in front of a building wig “radhus” on the front.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in Holmavik is pretty fun, and the pumpkin soup is good. Where can I get a set of “Necropants,” where money appears in the scrotum? Kohl’s maybe!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Some East Bay municipality really needs to enter into a sister city relationship with Hella, home of the American School Bus Café.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Costco in Iceland looks like if you asked AI to make a picture of a Costco: it’s close, but a little off and all the lettering is scrambled.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It’s my 20000th day on Earth, so I’m celebrating with family in Reykjavik!
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Greenland, everybody.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Watching #Superman on the plane, and it has some interesting edits. Guy is doing full-hand tank flips (instead of middle fingers), and he’s no longer “God-damn Mr. Terrific.”
“Dad-gum Mr. Terrific”
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mt. Hood looks ravishing today.
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The “new” PDX is pretty nice.
All three pictures show a nice new clean airport terminal was various shops and wooden beams on the ceiling
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Watching the sportsball at the other kind of sportsball.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
YOU SIMPLY CANNOT ALLOW THE TROLL TO EMERGE FROM UNDER HIS BRIDGE
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Nor-freakin’-way this is happening! #WorldCup
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John C. Baker @johnbaker10.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Officiated by who???
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Mary in New York ceremony officiated by Adam Sandler
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